Happy New Year, Messy Jesus Business readers! As the calendar pages turn, it is a good time to pause and consider how God’s graces have been at work in the past year. It is a time to give God thanks and praise, to honor the sacredness of God’s holy time. (If you’re in the LaContinue reading “The mess of 2018 in five posts”
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A complicated patriotism
Years ago, during a Fourth of July parade, I had a panic attack. Fresh back to the United States after studying abroad for six months and foggy with jet lag, I felt dizzy and overwhelmed among the swarm of white people speaking English, waving flags, eating candy and donned in red, white and blue. ThenContinue reading “A complicated patriotism”
some non-patriotic flag day thoughts
I am unpatriotic. I don’t like flag day or other patriotic celebrations. I feel like I am repeating myself a little, because I have written about this before (see my comments in this post, especially), but I dislike patriotism. I really, really do. I dislike patriotism so much that it sometimes makes me sick toContinue reading “some non-patriotic flag day thoughts”
loving Jesus, not the nation
It’s Memorial Day in the USA. Many people have hung flags with pride and celebrated soldiers like saints. I’m different. I’ve been humming a non-patriotic song.. Every day I remember the sin and horror of war and cry out to God for forgiveness and conversion. Today is no different. I pray in thanksgiving for theContinue reading “loving Jesus, not the nation”